Greater Greater Washington hasn’t updated our branding and visual look in years, and it’s past time. With amazing help from Peter Dovak, we’ve been thinking about logos and have a few options to get your input on.

Here are eight logo ideas. Below them are a few general concepts for how some of them might fit into a banner or block layout with our name and tagline, but those are only examples. Also, these are in black and white, but the final logo may not be. We’ll think about colors later.

We currently use the thing at the right for our Twitter icon, but it’s got too much going on (two symbols, a pencil sketch of a historical figure, and a map in the background). You might or might not have noticed, but it’s not even on our website anywhere, either.

In a survey last year, many said you didn’t really like the George part in particular, so we started experimenting with simpler logos that keep the “chevron” idea but lose the other stuff. One option (the “no-build,” in a sense) still keeps it, so you can tell us how you think these compare.

Please give your thoughts in the form below. We’re not taking a formal vote here, but rather, we want your overall feedback on these. The preponderance of ratings, good, bad, or mixed will be helpful, but your comments also will be important to help us actually sort out these possibilities. Thank you!

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.